Though most millennials consider “friend-zoning” a benevolent form of rejecting a date, this Lutheran pastor thinks it’s a “fertility-killing” trend that’s hurting America.

On Tuesday, Rev. Hans Fiene, from Channahon, Illinois, wrote an article for the Federalist titled, “Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’” that quickly went viral. In it, Fiene argues that platonic relationships between the sexes are impossible, because women can’t provide men with testosterone-filled companionship like “watching movies where things explode.”

Furthermore, the pastor says that no matter how much ladies insist that their opposite sex friendship is strictly chaste, men can’t help themselves from thinking, “Marry that woman and impregnate her now.” Therefore, the responsibility lies on women to cut off their drooling male pals to make them channel their masculine urge to procreate elsewhere.